I had planned on diving right into a new hypertrophy block after my last contest, but I'm still feeling beat up from my contest 2 weeks ago, so I've been basically just putzing around with training since then.

Saturday, I did some overhead work with Team BOSS. No real plan when I went in because I mostly got out of bed to coach a new strongman that asked for my help, so we just set up a small "medley" with a log off the blocks and then one axle clean and 3 split jerks.


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Sunday, I went down to the S5 compound to work on some deadlifting. The goal is to switch entirely to hook grip. Hopefully my weightlifting background will help expedite that process.


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The goal moving forward is to build up volume in my swims, blast at least 10 weeks worth of hypertrophy training, and then start to back off a little on conditioning to maintain and get into a strength phase around 20-18 weeks out from United States Strongman nationals in June.